On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:08:43PM -0200, Leonardo Carneiro wrote:
fileserver:/etc/ldap# /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldapi:/// ldap:/// -g openldap -u openldap -F /etc/ldap/slapd.d -d 128
Aha! Your server is using LDAP-based config so it is ignoring the config file entirely.
Does these changes that we are making into slapd.conf really being processed? Normally, i see just the "-F /etc/ldap/slapd.d" flag and never the "-f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf".
I suspect the config file was converted to a config dir during the Debian upgrade process, so the file is now being ignored.
I also suspect that there may not be a valid password set on the cn=config suffix, so you will not be able to manage the server through LDAP either.
One solution is to change the startup process to use the config file (-f option) rather than the config dir (-F option). Once you have a file that does what you want you have the option of converting it to a directory:
Move aside the existing config directory /etc/ldap/slapd.d and make a new one with the same ownership and permissions.
Start slapd with both the -f and the -F options.
If you are going to do this, I suggest adding a rootpw for the config database first. Append this to your slapd.conf file:
######################################################################## database config
rootdn "cn=config" rootpw example ########################################################################
You will then be able to do normal LDAP operations on the config:
ldapsearch -x -D cn=config -w example -b cn=config '(objectclass=*)'
Andrew